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- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -40/+1250You had me at cleavage.
- wtf, on 06/01/2008, -29/+1196I can't tell if this is completely true. But even if it's only 10% true: this is a big ***** deal.
- GravePwnage, on 06/01/2008, -53/+872There's not really much for me to say except for that this information is important, and the word should get out.
- CarStan, on 06/01/2008, -29/+698OMG, The Mayans were right, the world will end in 2012. The Nerd-Rage and outrage of billions of men who wake up without access to free internet porn will be of the scale. Not to mention the immediate victims that will die of blue-balls syndrom.
- Soulbow2, on 06/01/2008, -31/+512How can we stop this?
- exomni, on 06/01/2008, -34/+456Vote for Barack Obama, he's been a strict and principled supporter or Net Neutrality for a very long time now.
Net Neutrality is the doctrine that internet providers must remain neutral on their provision of internet content, and may not discriminate speed or access to particular websites, but must provide access to all content freely and openly and equally. In summary: to enforce the basic principle of the internet that has made it so successful: open and easy access.
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060608-network_neu ...
And send letters to your representatives asking them to support Net Neutrality. If Obama is elected, send letters urging him to take action and encouraging him of his support for Network Neutrality. - Sk8boyP, on 06/01/2008, -30/+446LOOK AT THOSE *****!
- dramaticlemur, on 06/01/2008, -124/+4671. Write an article about some crazy conspiracy theory you just came up with
2. Put some ads around it
3. Put it on a site with lots of dumb nerds who will believe in every ***** you throw at them
4. ???
5. Profit - mojoface, on 06/01/2008, -79/+396Sorry for being "that guy" but this is *****. This will never happen. Ever.
Dugg for *****. - CarStan, on 06/01/2008, -17/+265On a serious note: I know there are many IT guys on Digg and chances are good some of you might own lots of money. Listen to what they say in the vid: Lets start to build up our own 'alternative' provider right now. The demand will be tremendous. Lets do this!
Although maybe there won't be a need to do this. I really can't imagine that Google with their policy of making infomation available will let this happen. Not even mentioning that their whole search service will become obsolete if the internet only consists of 2000 sites anymore. They have the money and the ressources to stomp their own ISP network off the ground. Anyone knows what their stance is towards this whole thing? - anarcurt, on 06/01/2008, -12/+202So thats what the Mayan calender was predicting!
- sockpuppets, on 06/01/2008, -7/+186I do as the boobies command me.
- SimplyWile, on 06/01/2008, -65/+237I don't even believe it :S
- Berkana, on 06/01/2008, -5/+1591.5: have a hot girl with a low cut shirt announce it.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -5/+153"certain isps" does NOT cut it. For the last time, NAME THEM. Any wafflehead with a handicam can send out a "warning" and make it to the digg front page. But now its time to pony up the information and bring this story from paranoid fringe into relevancy.
- Isoro, on 06/01/2008, -36/+176I do not quite belief in exactly 4 years, but surely within a decade.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -6/+143The day this happens is the day that I cancel my ISP. ***** this *****.
- chromerium, on 06/02/2008, -2/+130I'm an IT guy, an ISP engineer for a large ISP, and this is complete FUD.
2012 is when IPv4 address space is slated to run out and we're supposed to have IPv6 ready by then. I don't think it's any co-incidence these conspiracy nut-jobs are using the same date as the date for the big internet steal.
IPv6 doesn't work in any largely different way to IPv4 works, except you'll see largely a removal of NAT from the ecosystem which will be good for consumers as things like VoIP will work without UPnP and NAT traversal hacks. Obviously there is a huge implementation overhead there, and most ISPs have large projects on the go to start working on shifting their infrastructure over by 2012. These projects are probably being misinterpreted by non-technical people within these companies and communicated as 'leaks' to these conspiracy fools.
Every now and then, Marketing people come down to us and ask "hey, so, can we sell a premium product that provides better service to all our ***** and our partner's ***** than the normal access product does?". The answer is always "No", for several reasons, mostly technical.
The few companies that are willing to degrade their customers access in hopes they can extort customers to upgrade to a 'higher quality' link will find that people will shift over to ISPs that don't do that, and the money they've spent in all those shaping boxes and for the changes in their AAA platforms will be wasted.
Back in the day, AOL, MSN, all these companies tried to 'own' the internet. But it has a way of squirming out of the reach of any single entity, even a consortium. - str1fe, on 06/01/2008, -1/+126I heard there's some internet out west in Californey.
- NamesTwister, on 06/01/2008, -5/+129Hopefully Google will have found a way to provide free nation wide wireless internet by then...
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -9/+128i predict a riot
- elevensup, on 06/01/2008, -14/+123We are living a social-digital miracle (horizontal citizens of all over the world comunicating one to each other as equals) This is something never seen in human history, and THEY want it to finish. We must stand for net neutrality, we must defend this freedom space we have conquered.
- littlewing82, on 06/01/2008, -2/+106By making sure a lot of people know so that we can all speak up against it!
So digg it up! - Chrino, on 06/01/2008, -4/+105If this happened, how many people will be out of jobs? I would be.
- dood, on 06/01/2008, -0/+96Other than the obvious, writing to congress, I think we should be ready to form an underground replacement internet network. URIN. Catchy, eh?
- frazier117, on 06/01/2008, -7/+95NO MORE DIGG?!!?!
- frazier117, on 06/01/2008, -6/+92Thats exactly how scientology works
- int19h, on 06/01/2008, -5/+90Wireless worldwide mesh-networks with tunneled connection ftw?
- benologist, on 06/01/2008, -2/+75"Lets start to build up our own 'alternative' provider right now."
Those cables connecting various continents and countries, and those satelites up in space, cost a hell of a lot of money to create, provide and maintain... I'm not sure if any trillionaires are using digg. - iCardskeeper, on 06/01/2008, -20/+92Very important message....
We can do something against this!!! - Rahodeb, on 06/01/2008, -7/+76Don't worry about it, it's not going to happen, this is a bunch of alarmist bullcrap. There are laws in place to stop this kind of anti-competitive behavior and they are enforced.
Additionally, what it the hell makes anyone think that the internet could be restricted down to a handful of sites without a full scale riot. No new domains? No new e-commerce sites? Riiight. - TritonVision, on 06/01/2008, -5/+74Noooo! Where will I get my tentacle furry hentai????
- SoopremeLee, on 06/01/2008, -4/+71And the faster the better, four years is too little time now that the agreements have already started.
I see riots happening in four years from now. :) - uhhNo, on 06/01/2008, -0/+61I like that random cleavage shot at 6:23.
- moocow1452, on 06/01/2008, -2/+63You're right, Google would fight this with every bone in it's body. Along with Yahoo!, Digg, My Space, and just about every site out there. Heck, we could use their lines, on a completely different p2p-based protocol.
- Evolutuon, on 06/01/2008, -4/+64All this talk of ISPs conspiring together to control a market sounds like a cartel to me. Isn't that illegal?
- AngryFox, on 06/01/2008, -2/+60I just can't imagine Google would ever let this happen.
Furthermore, something like this would require complete consensus and simultaneous enactment amongst every ISP. If even one ISP refused to change, then overnight wouldn't every customer flock to them? - phatcat77, on 06/01/2008, -2/+59It doesn't matter, if they do this someone will make an alternate web. Businesses have to provide what costumers want, or someone ells will. The internet is a technology not a property, people know how it works. If every provider stopped providing the internet experience that void will be filled by someone ells. It's something we should be aware of but I wouldn't worry about it that much.
- Neticule, on 06/01/2008, -10/+65Well, you would be right, except, there are no ads on that page. so, your plan fails.
- Dotcommer, on 06/01/2008, -4/+58If we're not strong enough to fight it, then we'll retreat into the woods, and fight boars until we reach lvl 70. Then we go back and destroy them.
- topgigmedia, on 06/01/2008, -3/+52$ is the bottom line. Trust me, if this does happen and consumer demand pushes for the "old internets", a company or 10 will rise up out of the abyss and start offering the service again. The Net is going nowhere. If these companies try to do this they will loose.
With Television, most of us had/have nothing to do with the content. With the internet, we ARE the content. It is like comparing apples and oranges when the Internet and television (cable) models are compared. Someone will always be offering access the "whole internet" as a service - theonlywizdum, on 06/01/2008, -2/+49We can shoot all the CEOs that came up with this moronic idea.
- SANiK, on 06/01/2008, -33/+78Wow - stupid chain letter spam on Digg's front page?
Buried - MadHarvey, on 06/01/2008, -1/+45I don't understand how things like this are even possible. What kind of engineer would help implement something like this? If my employer put me on a project like this, I would laugh in their face, quit, and tell everyone about it. Engineers have a responsibility, just like doctors, police officers, etc. to work for the good of human kind. If you would work on something like this, you don't deserve to be called an engineer.
The good news is, there are plenty of good engineers and hackers. As long as we exist, technology and the freedom of information will always be in the hands of the people.
http://www.order-of-the-engineer.org/oblig.htm - azbmr, on 06/01/2008, -0/+44Google already built up a lot of dark fiber lines and has its "cubes" all over. I don't know if they were preparing for this day, but soon the Internet will run on Google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform - vondrak, on 06/01/2008, -1/+44Yeah when I saw that chick's cleavage I thought this was going to be some kinda joke, but aside from that and those haircuts it's a serious issue.
- mark076h, on 06/01/2008, -14/+57i thought that guy was some kind of WoW player that made some dumb documentary, now he is a real life crusader against net neutrality? still love the girl though she is hot!
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -4/+45That will never work. 99% of websites would die. Digg would die over night, myspace, face book, etc. even google would die.
- str1fe, on 06/01/2008, -2/+42Nice accent to boot.
- NihilFist, on 06/01/2008, -0/+40What you actually want to say is *planet wide* :P
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